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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a SAHM with some working mom friends. We obviously don’t hang out on weekdays. I also have friends without kids! And even unmarried friends! [/quote]

We are working parents. So let’s be clear, you don’t get together on weekdays and weekends are devoted to family time?

When do you get together??? I ask b/c we like OP live among many SAHMs, and I don’t know how to build friendship b/c I just never see anyone. They carpool for practices so I see the same mom like once a month, they are building their friendships while I’m at work so not sure how to even make decent introductions. [/quote]

I'm not the PP but for us weekends are for family time.  We will do stuff with other families where we like that parents and all the kids get along, but not a playdate for just one of the kids.

To answer your question, it's hard to build friendships.  In my experience, friends through our kids are friends as long as it's convenient and mutually beneficial. Those moms carpooling probably aren't good friends and won't be in touch once their friends aren't on the same soccer team, or whatever it is.  Some friendships last, of course, but everyone I know of has this same challenge with finding/building/maintaining adult friendships when they have kids, whether they SAH or not.[/quote]
I’m just definitely jealous and feel shut out when all the moms at the school meet for yoga and lunch several times a week, and then if I suggest weekends it’s  a polite no. We should probably move to further suburb to find a working mom tribe i guess. [/quote]

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